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My secret garden admirers

December 10, 2007 by Tricia

Now that we’re out several times each day walking the puppy we’re meeting all kinds of neighbors. Not too many with dogs yet though … I guess we don’t walk our pup at the same time as our dog owning neighbors.

Of course, Chris is a talkative friendly guy so he already knows quite a few of our neighbors – way more than I do! But I’m getting to know more of them these days.

I find our puppy needs to go out around 3 or 3:30 in the afternoon … of course that’s when all the kids are walking home from the schools down the street so we often get mobbed by puppy loving kids and teens. Midnight just goes nuts doing her excited little puppy jumps when a new person crouches down to pet her and tell her she’s adorable.

One of the neighbors that I ended up talking to the other day knew me by my garden when she saw where I was coming from. “Oh you’re the person with the fantastic garden and all the roses!” she said.

We’ve found that a lot of our neighbors are secret and sometimes not so secret admirers of our garden. Some even walk down our driveway in the summer to have a look at the backyard. That’s a little startling if I’m busy digging in the garden or if I’m inside the house and I see the security light in the drive way go on and hear the sounds of human foot steps walking down the drive. You never know who it might be right?

Anyway, this one garden admirer got talking about my garden and told me her daughter is getting married in the summer. Then she astonished me by asking if maybe I’d like to supply the wedding flowers? I don’t know about that … it depends on when the wedding is and what’s blooming of course.

We agreed to talk more about it sometime in the Spring. I’m not sure if I’ll do it or not. I guess it depends what the bride has in mind, but you never know this might turn into something interesting for me.





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Enough of the cold weather – hurry up summer!

December 6, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

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You know … I just realized that today is Thursday. I’ve been so busy with my puppy lately and so tired as a result that I seem to have lost track of the days!

I’m already longing for summer. It’s been so cold here in the last week! Lots of snow, ice and rain and temperatures below freezing most of the time. Yuck.

I can’t wait for Spring and then Summer … especially now that we have a dog. The beach will become one of our regular destinations to take the dog I’m sure. It will be fun to walk along the boardwalk and the sandy beach with Midnight.

Being a Labrador Retriever I’m certain she’ll love the beach too, and I won’t be the least bit surprised if she does some swimming in the lake either.

Filed Under: Canada, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Pets and animals, Photography, Recreation, Toronto, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: beach, Beaches, boardwalk, busy, cold, destination, dog, freezing, fun, labrador retriever, Love, photo, puppy, rain, snow, spring, Summer, swimming, the beach, tired, walk, Wordless Wednesday

A bright little rose

December 2, 2007 by Tricia

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I love this little rose plant. It’s called Morden Sunrise and it produces the most lovely multicolored roses.

Morden Sunrise is a fairly compact rose plant. Mine has never reached more than 2 to 2.5 feet tall, yet it produces a number of bright blooms regularly throughout the growing season. It’s also a hardy rose so those in cool climates would do well with this rose.

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Filed Under: Entertainment, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: bloom, blooms, color, cool, garden, Green Thumb Sunday, hardy rose, Morden Sunrise, photo, plant, rose, roses, sunrise

What to get a 10 year old for Christmas?

December 2, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve been trying to think of what to get my youngest niece for Christmas. She’s almost 10 years old and she’s a real girly girl.

It can sometimes be hard to buy gifts for kids when you don’t have any of your own. There are so many trendy items that are hot one month and dead the next. It’s hard to keep up.

I’m pretty sure that she’d love it if I could get her High School Musical tickets. It looks like the Ice Tour is here in Toronto all through the week of Christmas. Surprisingly they even have a show on Christmas day!

Do you think that that’s something a 10 year old girl would really like to get for Christmas? Any other ideas?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: buy, christmas, gift, Gifts, High School Musical, Ice Tour, ideas, kid, kids, Music, Niece, show, ticket, tickets, Toronto, trendy, week of Christmas

Milkweed flower buds

November 29, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Milkweed flower buds

I was going over some of my older photos and I came across this one of milkweed flower buds and thought it looked kind of interesting. If it was dried as it is, it would make a pretty dried flower for an arrangement.

Of course nothing is blooming in my garden now! We had our first snow last week and it’s become quite cool here over the last few days. Below zero or hovering around zero most days. I’m really not ready for winter to arrive yet … especially now that I have a puppy that I have to take out about ten times a day! LOL

And yes, I know my Wordless Wednesday post is a day late … blame the dog!

Filed Under: Gardening, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Toronto, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: bloom, blooming, bud, buds, cold, cool, dog, flower, garden, interesting, milkweed, milkweed flower buds, photo, pretty, puppy, snow, winter, Wordless Wednesday

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